This puzzle was formerly sold by Crafty Puzzles and is retained as a free reference item. It is no longer available to purchase from this website.
Try a hint before revealing the answer
Open one hint at a time to preserve some of the challenge.
Hint 1
Keep the metal sheets and numbered instruction diagram beside you throughout the build.
Hint 2
Pre-curve cylindrical body parts gently before locking their tabs.
Hint 3
Use fine tweezers or needle-nose pliers and avoid bending the same fold line repeatedly.
Written assembly guide
- Open the official MMS250 instruction PDF and identify every numbered part on the two steel sheets.
- Remove parts only as needed, using clippers where possible to avoid distorting them.
- Shape the cylindrical body and dome components gradually around a smooth round former.
- Join parts in the exact numbered order, folding or twisting each tab in the direction shown.
- Attach the legs and smaller details after the main body is square, then compare the model with the official finished view.
Use the preserved diagram or video alongside these steps for exact orientation. The written guide is an original summary prepared for this archive.
Complete R2-D2 Metal Earth Model solution
Fascinations provides the original two-page assembly sheet for Metal Earth model MMS250. The PDF opens on the manufacturer’s website.
Open the official assembly instructions
The manufacturer continues to provide the original instruction sheet. It opens as an external PDF and remains the authoritative step-by-step source.
Source and verification
- Archive source
- Fascinations / Metal Earth official instructions for MMS250 — Open the official PDF
- Information checked
- 13 June 2026
- Verification status
- Official manufacturer instruction sheet and product specification
- Page status
- Original Crafty Puzzles URL preserved
